Fortune Pond Trash

[sum-yung guy]

Over the years I have seen more and more trash being planted in the Pond on purpose for "fun." It is not so bad when you see a toy or two or maybe even a skull, but I am now seeing laptops and I just heard that there is a toilet in there now! COME ON PEOPLE! This is a bunch of BS and needs to stop! Aren't we all out here to promote the conservation and preservation of our lakes, quarries and oceans? Stop putting this crap in our dive sites! I don't get fired up about much on here, but this is ridiculous.

I am tired of diving the Pond and seeing all this crap in there, so I am going to do something about it and am asking for help from this board. As soon as the ice goes out on the Fortune Pond I am going to update this post with a date (Saturday or sunday) for a pond clean up day. I will provide a lunch, air fills, gear and anything else you might need for helping me out with this clean up. Any air fills for the day will be free, gear rental will be free, and there is of course no fee to get into the park. I am happy to do this to get one of our dive sites clean! I am asking everyone on the board who has the time and wants to help, to volunteer for this project and help clean out the pond. It is getting warm around here and it shouldn't be much longer before the pond will start opening up. We should be ice diving the pond this weekend and I will be getting an idea on how much stuff is still in there and how much help we need to clean it out. My goal is to fill my trailer and take all this stuff to the dump where it belongs, not in the lake!

I thank everyone ahead of time for your help on this and your help keeping people from dumping more stuff in the pond or any other lake for that matter.